Lobe

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A rounded projection, especially a rounded, projecting anatomical part: the lobe of an ear.
  • n. A subdivision of a bodily organ or part bounded by fissures, connective tissue, or other structural boundaries.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form.
  • n. A division of the brain.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A rounded projection or division of a leaf.
  • n. A membranous flap on the sides of the toes of certain birds, as the coot.
  • n. A round projecting part of an organ, as of the liver, lungs, brain, etc. See Illust. of brain.
  • n. The projecting part of a cam wheel or of a non-circular gear wheel.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A rounded and more or less globular projection or part.
  • n. In botany, a rounded projection or division of a leaf, fruit, or other organ of a plant.
  • n. In zoology, a projection or part which is imperfectly separated from another part: as, the lobes of the maxillæ in insects.
  • n. In machinery, the larger or more prominent part of a cam-wheel.
  • n. The lobus semilunaris inferior together with the slender lobe.
  • n. See the adjectives.
  • n. In the septate cephalopoda like Nautilus and the ammonites, any division of the septal suture which makes a convex curve toward the apex: contrasted with saddle, which is a curvature toward the aperture.
  • n. In the trilobites, one of the divisions of the glabella; a glabellar lobe.
  • n. In geology, a projection from a glacier, like a peninsula: especially used of the continental ice-sheet of the glacial epoch. see ice-lobe.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a rounded projection that is part of a larger structure
  • n. (anatomy) a somewhat rounded subdivision of a bodily organ or part
  • n. the enhanced response of an antenna in a given direction as indicated by a loop in its radiation pattern
  • n. (botany) a part into which a leaf is divided
  • Hypernym
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    brain   
    Synonym
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    division    fluke    lappet    auricle    wing    insular   
    Rhyme
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    Job    Latrobe    Probe    Tobe    globe    job    jobe    loeb    mobe    prob   
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